But in my living among mortals for many years, I learned many things that I did not know, even back when I was a mortal myself.
I used to be very, very spoiled, Daozhang. A spoiled child. Some people tried to warn me about that, and about my arrogance, but when you are a willful child who has never been denied, you think you know better than anyone else, and that people just aren't trying hard enough. You don't realize that some of what they tell you is because they tried and they failed, and they don't want you to suffer through the same disillusion and hurt they did.
[It's too bad the lesson had to be learned the very hard way for him.]
But in the end, I still think I was correct about some thing. I became a god because I wanted to help the common people, and I still want to do that. Except now, I understand how to do it better.
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But in my living among mortals for many years, I learned many things that I did not know, even back when I was a mortal myself.
I used to be very, very spoiled, Daozhang. A spoiled child. Some people tried to warn me about that, and about my arrogance, but when you are a willful child who has never been denied, you think you know better than anyone else, and that people just aren't trying hard enough. You don't realize that some of what they tell you is because they tried and they failed, and they don't want you to suffer through the same disillusion and hurt they did.
[It's too bad the lesson had to be learned the very hard way for him.]
But in the end, I still think I was correct about some thing. I became a god because I wanted to help the common people, and I still want to do that. Except now, I understand how to do it better.